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External evaluation of eight-grade students in domain of General Geography

This paper analyzes the eight grade students achievement in external evaluation exam in school year 2007/2008 in domain General Geography. The goal of this paper is to determine the level of achievement in basic geography knowledge and skills at the end of regular education. Objectives are also, comparision of General Geography domain with Geography of Europe and Geography of Croatia domains, qualitative analysis of all answers and content analysis of incorrect answers in General Geography domain with results interpretation. Qualitative analysis was conducted on a sample of 500 students and results were compared with results of population which attended external evaluation exam (21.485 eight grade pupils of elementary school). The results are expressed through average solvability of General Geography domain and individual items in that content area. It was found that average solvability of General GEography domain is 38% which is for 4 percentage pints less than achievement in Geography of Europe and by 11 percentage points less than the achievement in Geography of Croatia. The analysis identified significant differences between the achievements of individual items, depending on the type and difficulties of items, types of knowledge and cognitive dimensions. Qualitative analysis of open items detected the need for chalenges in teaching and learning strategies. The level of achievement in this domain of General Geography is not satisfying. Achieved results have demonstrated the absence of the priority and news effect and cumulative effect of learning and teaching was not noticed.

external evaluation; geography; general geography domain; type of knowledge; cognitive dimensions

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